<TITLE>11. Par -</TITLE>L-15-1 So now we find out that it was quite a thing. So they felt sorry for the poor old preacher, and just let him go. It was a strange thing, maybe to them people, to think that a man that was supposed to be intelligent, and would believe that God, the Creator of heavens and earth would do something, or say something that He was going to do which was contrary of their way of thinking. What they had... Maybe you didn't get it.
Look. But they thought that they could prove every natural thing by their science. If that isn't the kind of a world we're living in today: an intellectual, educational world full of science. And anything if they could prove that was wrong... God's... No God could ever speak anything that would--could be scientifically proven that it wasn't there.

L-15-2 Now, they have the same idea today. If your doctor says that you have cancer, you got to die, and the science proves that you got cancer, and it's in an advanced stage; it's silly to think anything different, because you're going to die. That's all. Science says you're going to die. They've examined you, and that's all of it. You're going to die. And they think it's crazy if you try to say that God promised to do it.
See, like it was, you have to stand that reproach. They say if the doctor says here, "We looked through, and the cancer is advanced. We've opened you up; it's all through your body, through your heart, through your lungs, through your liver, all over. It's impossible."
So you see, when you say, "But... he's going to live anyhow."
They say, "Well, poor fellow. Just let him alone."

L-15-4 I remember the night, Bill Hall, Brother Hall down at the Milltown church. Many of you remember the case. And when he--they called me out. My wife, my mother-in-law, and I went out here. He married a girl that was a sister, I believe, to George Culp, was the mayor of the city, or the judge here. His... That was his brother-in-law. They brought him up here to die. The doctor in Milltown, the doctor in New Albany, diagnosed his case as cancer of the liver. So I went down to see Mrs. Hall, and he'd took jaundice, and he was yellow all over. And I said, "Well, I suppose he's going to die." And I said...
She said, "Brother Bill, is there any way that--have... Can you hear from God?"
I said, "I--I don't know, Sister Hall. I can pray." I prayed, and I went back home, and the Lord said nothing to me. Then I went back the next day and I prayed again.
And she said, "Do you know any good doctor?"
I said, "Well, our family doctor is Doctor Sam Adair down here in Jeffersonville. He--he--he's--his father was our family doctor. And young Sam and I have always been bosom friends. And--and we went to school about the same time and been raised up together. We always go to him when anything is wrong."
She said, "Wonder if he'd come and look at Bill Hall," her husband.
I said, "I'll ask him."

L-16-3 All that Sam said to me, he said, "Billy, if the doctor said he had cancer," said, "there's only one thing for me to do. I'll send him to somebody that's smarter than I am, to a specialist. And we'll take the x-rays, and we won't put him to any more trouble."
We sent to New Albany to get the x-rays from the doctor down there, took him to Louisville and examined him; took him over in a ambulance and brought him back.
Well, of course, he wouldn't say to Mrs. Hall what was his trouble, so he called me. He said, "He's going to die," said, "you're preacher friend." Said, "The specialist in Louisville has just called me and said the diagnosis the doctors give in--down in Milltown and the doctor in New Albany gave the right kind of diagnosis." And he said, "It is cancer of the liver, and it's advanced. And, Billy, we can't cut the man's liver out and him live." Said, "He's going to die. And if he's a preacher, he ought to be ready."


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